geometry
English Edit
Etymology Edit
- From Old French géométrie, from Latin geōmetria, from Ancient Greek γεωμετρία (geōmetría, “geometry, land-survey”), from γεωμέτρης (geōmétrēs, “land measurer”), from γῆ (gê, “earth, land, country”) + -μετρία (-metría, “measurement”), from μέτρον (métron, “a measure”).
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
geometry (countable and uncountable, plural geometries)
- (mathematics, uncountable) The branch of mathematics dealing with spatial relationships.
- 1925, René Descartes, “The Geometry of Rene Descartes”, in David Eugene Smith, Marcia Latham, transl., [1637, La Géométrie], Cosimo Classics, published 2007, page 2:
- ANY problem in geometry can easily be reduced to such terms that a knowledge of the lengths of certain straight lines is sufficient for its construction.
- (mathematics, often qualified in combination, countable) A mathematical system that deals with spatial relationships and that is built on a particular set of axioms; a subbranch of geometry which deals with such a system or systems.
- 1975 [Addison-Wesley], Eugene F. Krause, Taxicab Geometry, 1986, Dover, page 64,
- Entire new geometries are also suggested by real-world cities.
- 2004, Judith Cederberg, A Course in Modern Geometries, Springer, page 1:
- Finite geometries were developed in the late nineteenth century, in part to demonstrate and test the axiomatic properties of completeness, consistency, and independence.
- 2006, Mark Wagner, The Geometries of Visual Space, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, page ix:
- Previous theorists have often tried to test whether visual space is best described by a small set of traditional geometries, such as the Euclidean geometry most of us studied in High School or the hyperbolic and spherical geometries introduced by 19th-century mathematicians.
- 1975 [Addison-Wesley], Eugene F. Krause, Taxicab Geometry, 1986, Dover, page 64,
- (countable) The observed or specified spatial attributes of an object, etc.
- 2003, Matt Welsh, Running Linux, page 74:
- Also, certain SCSI controllers need to be told where to find drive geometry in order for Linux to recognize the layout of your drive.
- 2018 March 14, Roger Penrose, “'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary”, in The Guardian:
- He was extremely highly regarded, in view of his many greatly impressive, sometimes revolutionary, contributions to the understanding of the physics and the geometry of the universe.
- (algebraic geometry, countable) A mathematical object comprising representations of a space and of its spatial relationships.
Holonyms Edit
Derived terms Edit
- absolute geometry
- affine differential geometry
- affine geometry
- algebraic geometry
- anabelian geometry
- analytical geometry
- analytic geometry
- arithmetic geometry
- birational geometry
- chronogeometry
- combinatorial geometry
- complex geometry
- computational geometry
- conformal geometry
- contact geometry
- descriptive geometry
- differential geometry
- diophantine geometry
- elementary geometry
- elliptic geometry
- Euclidean geometry
- finite geometry
- fractal geometry
- geometry of fear
- geometry of numbers
- geometry shader
- hyperbolic geometry
- hypergeometry
- imaginary geometry
- inversive geometry
- Kerr geometry
- Klein geometry
- noncommutative geometry
- non-Euclidean geometry
- noneuclidean geometry
- plane geometry
- pregeometry
- projective geometry
- Riemannian geometry
- sacred geometry
- spherical geometry
- taxicab geometry
- tropical geometry
- variable geometry
Related terms Edit
Translations Edit
branch of mathematics
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type of geometry
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spatial attributes
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See also Edit
Further reading Edit
geometry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “geometry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “geometry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Geometry on Encyclopedia of Mathematics
- Geometry on Wolfram MathWorld
- Geometry on Wikibooks
